Date of Revision 28/04/2020

Curriculum vitae of Peter King

A. BIOGRAPHICAL

1. PERSONAL

Peter King Department of 95 Humberside Avenue The University of Toronto Toronto ON M6P 1J9 170 St. George Street, #521 (416)-760-7848 Toronto, ON M5R 2M8

[email protected]

2. DEGREES

PhD, 1982, Princeton University. Thesis: “ and the in the Twelfth Century” Supervisor: Michael Frede

3. EMPLOYMENT

Department of Philosophy (75%); Centre for Mediaeval Studies (25%) Professor of Philosophy and of Mediaeval Studies, from 1 July 2003

Professor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University 2002-2003 Associate Professor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University 1991-2002 Adjunct Professor of , The Ohio State University 1992-2003 Assistant Professor of Philosophy,The Ohio State University 1989-1991 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh 1982-1989 Adjunct Professor of the History and , University of Pittsburgh 1986-1989 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University 1981-1982

4. HONOURS

5. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

American Philosophical Association; Canadian Philosophical Association; Societé intenationale pour l'étude de la philosophie médiévale; Society for Medieval and ; Society for Medieval and .

B. ACADEMIC HISTORY

6B. Research Awards

SSHRC: 01 April 2006 to 31 March 2010 : $57,148 SSHRC: 01 April 2011 to 31 March 2014: $31,276 SSHRC: 01 April 2016 to 31 March 2022: $117,000 (extended by one year)

C. SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL WORK

7A. Articles in Refereed Publications

“Anselm's Intentional Argument” in History of Philosophy Quarterly1 (1984), 147-166. “'s Philosophy of Science” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 18 (1987), 109-132. “Towards a Theory of the General Will” in History of Philosophy Quarterly 4 (1987), 33-51. “ on the Common and the Individual ”' in Philosophical Topics 20 (1992), 50-76. “Abelard's Intentionalist ” in The Modern Schoolman 72 (1995), 213-232. “From intellectus uerus / falsus to the dictum propositionis: The Semantics of Peter Abelard and His Circle" [Klaus Jacobi, Christian Strub, Peter King], in Vivarium 34.1 (1996), 15-40. “Augustine on the Impossibility of Teaching” in 29.3 (1998), 179-195. “The Problem of in the ” in Theoria 66 (2000), 159-184. “Augustine's Encounter with ” in The Modern Schoolman 82 (2005), 213-226. “Duns Scotus on Singular ” in Medioevo 30 (2005), 111-137. “Le rôle de selon Ockham” in Philosophiques 32 (2005), 435-447. “Abelard on Mental Language” in The American Philosophical Quarterly 81 (2007), 169-187. “Abelard's Answers to ” forthcoming in Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale. “Damaged Goods: Human Nature and ” in and Philosophy 24 (2007), 247-267. “: The First of the Scholastics” in Carmina philosophiae 16 (2007), 23-50. “The Inner Cathedral: Mental in High ” in Vivarium 46 (2008), 253-274. “Augustine on Testimony” [with Nathan Ballantyne], in Canadian Journal of Philosophy. “Mediaeval Intentionality and Pseudo-Intentionality” in Quaestio 10 (2010), 25-44. “Boethius's Anti-Realist Arguments” in Studies in 40 (2011), 381-401. “Augustine’s Trinitarian Examples” in Medioevo 37 (2012): 83-106. “Boethius on the Problem of Desert” in Oxford Studies in 1 (2013), 1-22. “Pseudo-Joscelin: Treatise on Genera and Species” in Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 2 (2014), 104-210. “Marguerite Porete and : Detachable Will, Discardable Virtue, Transformative Love” in Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 6 (2018), 168-188.

7B. Books and/or Chapters in Refereed publications

“Mediaeval -Experiments: The Metamethodology of Mediaeval Science” in Thought-Experiments in Science and Philosophy, edited by Gerry Massey and Tamara Horowitz, Rowman & Littlefield 1991, 43--64. “'s Theory of Individuation” in Individuation in Scholasticism: The Later Middle Ages and the Counter-, 1150-1650, edited by Jorge Gracia, SUNY Press 1994, 141—172. “Jean Buridan's Theory of Individuation” in Individuation in Scholasticism: The Later Middle Ages and the Counter-Reformation, 1150-1650, edited by Jorge Gracia, SUNY Press 1994, 397--430. “Scholasticism and the Philosophy of : The Failure of Aristotelian Psychology" in Scientific Failure, edited by Tamara Horowitz and Allen I. Janis, Rowman & Littlefield 1994, 109-138. “Duns Scotus on the of Self-Change” in Self-Motion From to Newton, edited by Mary-Louise Gill and Jim Lennox, Princeton University Press 1994, 227-290. “Thomas Hobbes's Children” in The 's Child: Critical Essays in the Western Tradition, edited by Susan M. Turner and Gareth B. Matthews, University of Rochester Press 1998, 65-83. “Aquinas on the Passions” in Aquinas's Moral Theory, edited by Scott MacDonald and Eleonore Stump, Cornell University Press 1999, 101-132. “John Buridan's Solution to the Problem of Universals” in The Metaphysics and of John Buridan, edited by J.~M.~M.~H. Thijssen and Jack Zupko, E. J. Brill 2001, 1-27. “Consequence as Inference: Mediaeval Proof Theory 1300-1350” in Medieval Formal Logic: Obligations, Insolubles, and Consequences, edited by Mikko Yrjonsuuri, The New Synthese Historical Library 49: Kluwer Academic Press 2001, 117-145. “Duns Scotus on Possibilities, Powers, and the Possible” in Potentialitat und Possibilitat: Modalaussagen in der Geschichte der Metaphysik, eds. Thomas Buchheim, C. H. Kneepkens, and Kuno Lorenz. Fromann-Holzboog: Stuttgart--Bad Canstatt 2001, 175-199. “Late Scholastic Theories of the Passions: Controversies in the Thomist Tradition” in Emotions and from Boethius to Descartes. Eds. Henrik Lagerlund and Mikko Yrjonsuuri. Studies in the History of , Vol. 1. Kluwer 2002, 229-258. “Rethinking Representation in the Middle Ages” in Representation and Objects of Thought in Medieval Philosophy, edited by Henrik Lagerlund, Ashgate Press 2005, 83-102. “Why Isn't the Mind-Body Problem Mediaeval?” in Forming the Mind, edited by Henrik Lagerlund, Springer- Verlag 2007: 187-205. “Ockham's logicae” in Central Works of Philosophy Vol. 1, edited by John Shand, Acumen Publishing 2005, 242-269. “Thinking About Things: Singular Thought in the Middle Ages” forthcoming in Intentionality, Cognition, and Representation in the Middle Ages, edited by Gyula Klima (Fordham University Press 2007). “Emotions in Medieval Thought” in The Oxford Handbook of the Emotions, edited by Peter Goldie (Oxford University Press 2010). “Augustine and Anselm on Angelic Sin” in A Companion to Angels and Medieval Philosophy, edited by Tobias Hoffmann. Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition. Leiden: Brill 2012, 261-281. “Scotus on Anselm: The Two-Wills Theory” in Archa Verbi Subsidia 5. Johannes Duns Scotus 1308-2008: Investigations into his Philosophy. Edited by Ludger Honnefelder, Hannes Mohle, Andreas Speer, Theo Kobusch, Susana Bullido Del Barrio. Munster: Aschendorff 2011, 359-378. “Augustine’s Trinitarian Semantics” in Le *De Trinitate* de Augustin, edited by Emmanuel Bermon and Gerard O'Daly. Institut d'Etudes Augustiniennes: 2012, 123-135. “Body and ” in The Oxford Handbook to Medieval Philosophy, edited by John Marenbon. Oxford University Press 2012: 505-524. “Augustine’s Anti-Platonic Ascents” in Augustine’s Confessions, edited by Bill Mann. Oxford University Press 2015. “Augustine on Evil” in Evil, edited by Andrew Chignell. The Oxford Philosophical Concepts Series. Oxford University Press 2019, Chapter 6. “Winning, Losing, and Playing the Game” in Games, Sports, and Play, edited by Tom Hurka. Oxford University Press 2019: 33-53.

“Abelard” in the on-line Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abelard).

Peter King, Jean Buridan's . Synthese Historical Library Vol. 26, Dordrecht: D. Reidel 1985. Peter King, Augustine. Against the Academicians, The Teacher, and Selections From Other Writings. Hackett Publishing Company 1995. Peter King, Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings. Cambridge University Press 2010. Peter King, “Aquinas: On and ” in The Hackett Aquinas: Basic Works, edited by Jeff Hause and Robert Pasnau, Hackett Publishing Company 2014, 14-34.

Peter King, Corpus christianorum series latina (continuatio mediaevalis) 206A. Turnhout: Brepols 2016.

8B. Books and/or Chapters in Books of Non-Refereed Publications

“Ockham's Ethical Theory” in The Cambridge Companion to , edited by Paul Spade, Cambridge University Press 1999, 227-244. “Duns Scotus's Metaphysics” in The Cambridge Companion to John Duns Scotus, edited by Thomas Williams, Cambridge University Press 2003, 15-68. “The Metaphysics of Peter Abelard” in The Cambridge Companion to Peter Abelard, edited by Jeff Brower and Kevin Guilfoy, Cambridge University Press 2004, 65-125. “Anselm's ” in The Cambridge Companion to Ansem, edited by Brian Leftow and Brian Davies, Cambridge University Press 2004, 84-110. “Anselm” in The Encycopaedia of Philosophy (second edition). “Augustine on Knowledge” in The Cambridge Companion to Augustine (second edition), edited by Eleonore Stump, Cambridge University Press. “Augustine on Language” in The Cambridge Companion to Augustine (second edition), edited by Eleonore Stump, Cambridge University Press. “The Science of Psychology in Ockham’s Oxford” in Jenny Pelletier and Magali Roques (eds.), The Language of Thought in Late Medieval Philosophy. Springer-Verlag 2017, 315-329.

9. Manuscripts/publications in preparation and submitted to publishers but not yet accepted [these sorts of things should not be listed on a CV!]

10. Papers presented at meetings and symposia

"Jean Buridan on the ": University of Pittsburgh and Center for the Philosophy of Science Conference, 1983; American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1984. "Jean Buridan on Being": American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), 1986. "Scholasticism and the Philosophy of Mind": American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), 1986; University of Illinois at Chicago, 1987; University of Toronto, 1987. "The Failure of Ockham's ": Canadian Philosophical Association, 1987; American Philosophical Association (Central Division), April 1997. "Peter Abelard's Philosophy of Mind": Erindale College (University of Toronto), 1987; American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), 1987. "The Failure of Aristotelian Psychology": University of Pittsburgh and Center for the Philosophy of Science Conference, 1988. "Slavery and Wage-Slavery": University of Pittsburgh Honors College, 1988; Claremont Circle, 1989; Franklin and Marshall, 1989; McGill University, 1989. "After the Revolution (I): Marx on ": Ohio State University, 1989. "Peter Abelard as the Princeps Nominalium": Kalamazoo Medieval Conference, 1989. "The Emergence of Subjectivity in the Twelfth Century: Abelard on Moral Psychology": Medi\ae val Studies Conference on Invention and Imitation in the Middle Ages, Rice University, 1990. "Duns Scotus on the Analysis of Self-Motion": University of Pittsburgh and Center for the Philosophy of Science Conference on Self-Motion, 1990. "A World to Win: Neoclassical Economics as a Tool of Marxist Social Science": Roundtable on John Elster's Free to Lose, American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), March 1990. "Scotus versus Ockham on the Common Nature": Kalamazoo Mediaeval Conference, May 1991. "Fear and Loathing in High Scholasticism: The Mediaeval Analysis of the Passions of the Soul": Canadian Philosophical Association (Learned Societies Conference), May 1991. "Scotus on Third-Mode ": Kalamazoo Mediaeval Conference, May 1992. "Opposing and Responding: Paul Spade on the Function of Positio": American Philosophical Association (Midwest), April 1993. "Disputed Texts of Peter Abelard": workshop on Abelard, OSU, May 1993. "Duns Scotus on the Priority of ": Kalamazoo Mediaeval Conference, May 1993. "The Scope and Limits of Marx's Economics": discussion panel, Kenyon College, November 1993. "Abelard's Intentionalist Ethics": Henle Conference, St. Louis University, April 1994. "Mediaeval Puzzles About Property and Poverty": Kalamazoo Mediaeval Conference, May 1994. "Platonic Proportions: Nicolas Cusanus and Mathematical ": Conference on Platonism, Neoplatonism, the Mathematical Tradition, and Early Modern Science, Vanderbilt University, May 1994. "The Emergence of and the Emergence of Rights: Hobbes and Locke on Children": University of Toronto, October 1995. "From intellectus verus / falsus to the dictum propositionis: The Semantics of Peter Abelard and his Circle": Conference at Eerbeek (Netherlands), November 1995. "Abelard's World of Individuals": American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), December 1995. "Scotus on Freedom and Self-Motion": Kalamazoo Mediaeval Conference, May 1996. "The Status of Status": Conference on Peter Abelard, UCLA February 1997. "Abelard's Anti-Aristotelian Philosophy of Mind": American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), March 1997. "Duns Scotus on Instants of Nature": Kalamazoo Mediaeval Conference, May 1997. "Augustine on the Impossibility of Teaching": part of a symposium sponsored by the Association for the Philosophy of Education at the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), December 1997. "John Peter Olivi on Mental Architecture": Kalamazoo Mediaeval Conference, May 1998. "Why Descartes Invented the Mind": Conference on Descartes, UCLA May 1998. "Jean Buridan on Universals: The Final Word": Conference on the Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy of John Buridan, Emory University, October 1998. "The Collapse of the Scholastic Account of the Passions": Conference on Emotion and Cognition in Late Medieval and Early , University of Uppsala, November 1998. "Aquinas on Metaphysics as the Science of Unity": Moody Medieval Philosophy Workshop, UCLA February 1999. "Augustine as Skeptic: Menn's Mistake": Conference on Descartes, UCLA April 1999. "Abelard on the Status Redivivus [Comments on Guilfoy]", APA Central Division, May 1999. "Abelardian Metaphysics: A Deflationary Account", Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy, June 1999. "Repeated Exposure: History and Habitual Knowledge", University of Pittsburgh / University of Athens Conference, Crete, October 2000. "Rethinking Representation in the Middle Ages", University of Oslo, November 2000. "Ockham's : Failure of a Revolution", Kalamazoo Medi\ae val Conference, May 2001. "Between Logic and Psychology: Jean Buridan on Mental Language", University of Copenhagen, September 2001. "Abelard on ", UCLA February 2003 "Augustine's Encounter with Neoplatonism": University of Oslo, November 2003; the Henle Conference, St. Louis University, April 2004 "Augustine: The Truth About Lies", UCLA February 2004 “Ockham on the Role of Concepts”: Société de philosophie du Québec (Chicoutimi) 2005 “Games and Pastimes”: Canadian Philosophical Association, May 2005. “Damaged Goods: Human Nature and Original Sin”: University of Colorado at Boulder, February 2006. “Scotus vs. on the of Metaphysics”: UCLA April 2006 “Duns Scotus on Wholes and Parts”: Kalamazoo Mediaeval Conference, May 2006. “Lucifer's Logic”: Cornell Summer Medieval Colloquium, June 2006. “Abelard's Answers to Porphyry”: Pisa, July 2006. “Mental Architecture in High Scholasticism”: Conference on Transformations of the Soul, Berlin, October 2006. “Anselm on Rational Choice Theory”: UCLA January 2007. “Pseudo-Joscelin and Medieval ”: Paris (CNRS), February 2007. “Augustine's Anti-Platonist Ascents,” Conference on Augustine's Confessions, University of Toronto, March 2007. “The Science of Psychology at Ockham's Oxford”: Montreal (UQAM), May 2007. “The Enterprise of Mediaeval Logic”: Bonn, conference on medieval logic, July 2007. “On Beyond Cognition”: Palermo, SIEPM September 2007. “Scotus and his Sources”: UCLA February 2008. “Buridan on the Sources of the Soul”: UWO March 2008. “Scotus’s Revision of Anselm”: Bonn/ Quadruple Scotus Conference, October 2008. “Testimony in the Later Middle Ages”: Montreal (UQAM), May 2009. “Medieval Theories of Intentionality”: Universita di Parma, June 2009. “Augustine's About-Face”: UWO Ancient/Medieval Conference, October 2009. “Immateriality and Instantiation”: University of Leuven, February 2010. “Jean Buridan's Philosophical ”: Montreal (UQAM), May 2010. “Augustine: Pears and Perversity”: Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy, June 2010. “Augustine's Trinitarian Semantics”: Bordeaux, June 2010. “Body and Soul in the Middle Ages”: UT, October 2010. “Abelard's Fractured Logic”: McGill University, December 2010. “Augustine on Truth”: UCLA, April 2011. “Abelard’s Semantic Deflationism”: Montreal (UQAM), May 2011. “Abelard on Existential Inference”: Conference on Existential Import in Medieval Philosophy, Federal University of Rio di Janeiro, Brazil, May 2011. “Augustine’s Inverted ”: University of Bonn, December 2011. “Boethius on the Oneness of Goodness”: UCLA, April 2012. “Later Medieval Philosophy of ”: Fordham University, October 2012. “Medieval Materialism”: APA Eastern Division, Atlanta, December 2012. “Abelard on Material Constitution”: UCLA March 2013. “Death by Manicure”: Montreal (UQAM), May 2013. “Articulating Medieval Logic”: UCLA March 2014. “ and its (Dis)Contents”: University of Gothenburg, April 2016. “A Spirit So Strong and Kuttynge: Marguerite Porete and Godfrey of Fontaines”: Rethinking Philosophy’s Past 1300-1800, Columbia University, February 2017. “Epistemic Honesty”: Loyola University at Chicago, February 2017. “Acedia: Capital Vice and Deadly Sin”: UCLA, February 2017. “Anselm’s Place in the History of the Will”: University of Houston, May 2018. “ on the Passions of the Soul”: Louvain-la-neuve (Belgium), May 2018. “Strategies for Non-Things”: Geneva, May 2018. “Augustine and Epistemic Honesty”: Cornell Summer Medieval Colloquium, June 2018. “Active ”: APA Eastern Division, NYC, January 2019. “Augustine’s Confessions: Post-Classical Manifesto”: Columbia University, February 2019. “Powers in Medieval ”: The Ohio State University, March 2019. “Perception Control Mechanisms”: University of Helsinki (Finland), December 2019. “: The City of Ladies and The City of God”: Virtual Medieval Conference, April 2020.

11. Invited Lectures

"Mediaeval Origins of the Theory of Natural Rights": University of Pittsburgh (Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies Program), 1983; Swarthmore College, 1987. "Abelardian Ethics: A Mediaeval Categorical Imperative": University of Pittsburgh, 1984; University of Notre Dame, 1985. "Mediaeval Thought-Experiments and Mediaeval Science": University of Pittsburgh and Center for the Philosophy of Science Conference, 1986; Claremont Circle, 1989. "Alienated Consumption": Rice University, 1989. "Descartes and the Invention of the Modern Mind": McGill University, 1989. “The Mediaeval Key to Locke: Cognition and Consciousness": University of Dayton, 1989. "Abaelard als Kommentator": Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat (Freiburg), October 1995. "Mediaeval Puzzles About Property and Poverty": Virginia Polytechnic Institute, March 1994. "The Problematical Nominalism of William of Ockham": University of Nijmegen, November 1995. "Late Mediaeval Psychological Theory and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy of Mind", Kenyon College, April 2000. "Artistless Art: The Curious Case of Film", Kenyon College, April 2000. “Aquinas on the Passions,” McGill University, October 2004. “Augustine on the Will,” McGill University, October 2004. “Singularities of Singular Thought,” UQAM, May 2006. “Boethius: The First of the Scholastics,” Franciscan University of Steubenville, April 2007. “The Against the : Property and Poverty in the Middle Ages,” UWO April 2007. “Cognitive Science in the ,” UWO April 2007. “Cold Comfort: Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy in the Middle Ages”: Rice University, April 2009; UCLA Center for Medieval Studies [The Pepys Lecture], April 2009. “Augustine on Supererogation,” University of Auckland, September 2009. Augustine: mini-seminar (series of four lectures] given at Stanford University, June 2012. John Duns Scotus: mini-seminar (series of four lectures) given at Stanford University, June 2013. “Augustine’s New Genre for Philosophy”: University of South Florida, March 2014; Loyola University (Chicago), April 2014; Emory University, October 2014. “Moral Fatigue”: The University of Colorado at Boulder, October 2014. “Violent Means to Non-Violent Ends”: University of Toronto, for Peace, January 2015. “Games and Pastimes”: Games and Play (conference), the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, March 2015. “Ockham Against (Mental) Content”: The University of Virginia, April 2016. “Moral Fatigue: Acedia”: The University of Rochester, April 2017. William of Ockham: mini-seminar (series of six lectures) given at Stanford University, June 2017. “Richard Rufus on Will and Emotion”: Indiana University, November 2018.

D. LIST OF COURSES (in preceding 5 years)

A. Undergraduate courses taught:

Introduction to Philosophy Fall/Spring 2019-2020 Introduction to Philosophy Fall/Spring 2018-2019 Introduction to Ancient Philosophy Fall/Spring 2017-2018 Introduction to Fall 2017 Introduction to Ancient Philosophy Fall/Spring 2016-2017 Augustine (The City of God) Fall 2016 Introduction to Aesthetics Spring 2015 Introduction to Ancient Philosophy Fall/Spring 2014-2015

B. Graduate courses taught

Advanced (Boethius) Fall 2019 Survey of Medieval Philosophy Fall 2018 William of Ockham Spring 2018 The History of the Will: Augustine and Anselm Spring 2017 Literature: Abelard and Heloïse Fall 2015

C. Theses supervised (primary supervisor):

Peter Hartman, Durand of St-Pourçain on Intentionality (2008 – 2011) Michael Siebert, Platonic Recollection and Illumination in Augustine’s Early Writings (2010-2014) Matthew Siebert, Knowing and Trusting: The Medieval Social of Augustine and Aquinas (2011-2014) Ian Drummond, John Duns Scotus on the Role of the Moral Virtues (2006-2015) Simona Vucu, Self-Agency and Self-Motion in and John Duns Scotus (2009-2017). Boaz Schuman, Buridan on Consequences (2017- ).

E. ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS (indicate period of service and function)

2018-2021: Philosophy Undergraduate Coordinator 2018-2019: CMS Graduate Admissions 2017-2019: Arts and Sciences Council 2017-2018: Philosophy Graduate Admissions 2016-2017: Philosophy Graduate Admissions 2016-2017: CMS Graduate Admissions 2014-2015: CMS Latin Committee 2011-2014: Placement Coordinator 2009-2015: CPAMP, Executive Committee 2011-2015: Executive Committee, CMS